[Intro]

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          D 
When the earth was still flat
         D/B 
And the clouds made of fire
       A4
And mountains stretched up to the sky
G 
 Sometimes higher
G 
 Folks roamed the earth like big rolling kegs
          D 
They had two sets of arms, they had two sets of legs
          F#m                      G 
They had two faces peering out of one giant head
             Em 
So they could watch all around them
A 
As they talked while they read
           G          A         D 
And they never knew nothing of love
             G   A                D     G 
It was before     the origin of love
                D    G 
The origin of love

                  Bm                                                                     
And there were three sexes then, one of them looked like two men glued up back to back
D                          G 
Called the children of the sun
      Bm
And similar in shape and girth were the children of the earth
                D                      G 
They looked like two girls rolled up in one
          A 
And the children of the moon
             Bm 
Were like a fork stuck on a spoon
               Em 
They were part sun part earth
        Ab            A 
Part daughter part son

     D           G      D    G 
The origin of love

         D 
Now the gods grew quite scared
        D/B 
Of our strength and defiance
            A                          G 
And Thor said, "I'm gonna kill 'em all with my hammer
     G            G 
Like I killed the giants."
 G 
And Zeus said, "No, you'd better let me

Use my lightning like scissors
                D                                      D 
Like I cut the legs off the whales, dinosaurs and the lizards
         F#m 
Then he grabbed up some bolts
        G 
And he let out a laugh
                        Em 
Said, "I'll split them right dowm the middle
               A 
Gonna cut 'em right up in half."
         G          A            D 
And the storm clouds gathered above
                      G 
Into great balls of fire

           Bm 
And then fire shot down from the sky in bolts
                           G 
Like shining blades of a knife
          Bm 
And it ripped right through the flesh
                        G 
Of the children of the sun and the moon and the earth
               Bm 
And some indian god sewed the wound up to a hole
                                    G 
Pulled it around to our belly to remind us the price we paid
      Bm 
And Osiris and the gods of the nile
                   G 
Gathered up a big storm
               Em 
To blow a hurricane
               Bm 
To scatter us away
                       G 
In a flood of wind and rain
                    Em 
And a sea of tidal waves
                Bm 
To wash us all away
                  G 
And if we don't behave
                     Em 
They'll cut us down again
              Ab                      G 
And we'll be hopping 'round on one foot
D                          G 
And looking through one eye


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D       
Last time I saw you
      Bm 
We'd just split in two
          G 
You were looking at me
       A 
I was looking at you
               D 
And you had a way so familiar
   Bm 
I could not recognize
             G 
Cuz you had blood on your face
       A 
I had blood in my eyes
       D 
But I swear by your expression
          Bm 
That the pain down in your soul
         G                       A 
Was the same as the one down in mine
            D 
That's the pain
             Bm                             G 
That cuts a straight line down through the heart
            A 
We call it love
                D 
We wrapped our arms 'round each other
                Bm 
Tried to shove ourselves back together
                G              A 
We were making love   making love
          D                        Bm 
It was a cold dark evening such a long time ago
             G              A 
When by the mighty hand of Jove
          D                       Bm 
It was a sad story how we became lonely two-legged creatures
     G                       A 
The story of the origin of love
                      D     G    D    G    D    G... 
That's the origin of love